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اتفاقية سايكس–بيكو
Exact day16 May 1916
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A licensed photograph, with its credit, is added after review; never a generated likeness.On 16 May 1916 Britain and France concluded the secret Sykes–Picot agreement, dividing the Ottoman Arab provinces into spheres of their influence. In the area it marked brown it provided for an international administration, and it gave Britain the ports of Haifa and Acre.
The agreement, dated London, 16 May 1916, was made between the French and British governments. In the area it marked brown it provided for an international administration, its form to be decided after consultation with Russia, and later with the other allies and the representatives of the Sharif of Mecca. Britain was to have the ports of Haifa and Acre, and the right to build and own a railway linking Haifa with its own area.12
Link to this chapterThe United Nations study of the question records that the agreement came out of secret negotiations between Britain, France and Russia, later joined by Italy, and that because places sacred to three religions were there, an international regime was at first envisaged for Palestine, which was eventually to come under British control. Its revelation by the Soviet government after the 1917 revolution aroused Arab apprehensions.34
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PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Article 3
Original-language quotation · enThat in the brown area there shall be established an international administrationLink to this citationPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Articles 4 and 7
Editorial paraphrase · enGreat Britain is accorded the ports of Haifa and Acre, and the right to build, administer and be sole owner of a railway connecting Haifa with area (b).
Link to this citationUnited Nations · section: Chapter I, The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire
Original-language quotation · enIn 1916 negotiations between Britain, France and Russia, later also including Italy, led to the secret Sykes-Picot agreement on the allocation of Ottoman Arab territories to spheres of influence of the European PowersLink to this citationUnited Nations · section: Chapter I, Anglo-Arab understandings on Arab independence
Editorial paraphrase · enArab apprehensions were aroused by the revelation of the Sykes-Picot agreement by the Soviet Government after the 1917 revolution.
Link to this citationdocument · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
The agreement’s text, in the Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (Institute for Palestine Studies).
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document · United Nations
The United Nations study prepared for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (ST/SG/SER.F/1), as held by the UN Information System on the Question of Palestine.
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05-16 · occurrence
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